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"Hotmail was still one of the most widely used services, with over 300 million active accounts," he wrote. "This made the magnitude of the process incredible, maybe even unprecedented. This meant communicating with hundreds of millions of people, upgrading all their mailboxes and making sure that every person's mail, calendar, contacts, folders, and personal preferences were preserved in the upgrade. Of course, this had to be done with a live site experience that was handling billions of transactions a day."

So, farewell Hotmail, which almost certainly had users active on it since its 1996 debut.

Microsoft just upgraded everyone who uses Hotmail to the new Outlook.com. This required migrating more than 150 petabytes (150 million gigabytes) of data.

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics...you are all stardust.”― Lawrence M. KraussA 1792 U.S. penny, designed in part by Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, reads “Liberty Parent of Science & Industry.”

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"So, farewell Hotmail, which almost certainly had users active on it since its 1996 debut."

I looked the other day when I was shifting over to Outlook and remarked that I joined in late 1997. My wife and I were cracking up at how long I've had that email address. It's just myname at hotmail.com, no dots, no underscores or numbers, etc.

And if I were to share with you the *small* amount of information I had about the Internet and computers back then. *whew*